Here’s a tour of my kitchen drawers, plus a lot of concepts for organizing kitchen drawers you should utilize in your personal house!
The kitchen is the hub of the house
Most individuals use theirs not less than as soon as a day, some households possibly 10 instances a day! Individuals collect within the kitchen. Household dinners and bonding occur. Homework and artwork tasks are carried out right here. The way in which you set up your kitchen can have a big impression on the way in which you spend time within the house.
What you are feeling whenever you stroll within the room doubtless impacts your temper. That is very true for me, as I’ve a tough time specializing in the rest if I do know my kitchen is a cluttered mess. It’s additionally considered one of my favourite areas to prepare (in my home and different folks’s). (Additionally try learn how to declutter your kitchen cupboards.)
And as you in all probability know, our kitchen bought a significant overhaul in 2023! We have now far more drawer house than we want – as deliberate! We have now superb deep and broad kitchen drawer storage and that was my primary request. I advised our architect and cupboard maker “all of the drawers, please.” I discover drawers a lot simpler to make use of than cupboards. There may be much less leaning down or reaching up, and with the entire prime open, it’s simple to get issues out and in. We in all probability have too many drawers now, which you’ll see with a lot of open house within the pictures of our kitchen drawers under.
Right here we bought with a kitchen drawer tour of our dwelling and a few concepts for organizing your personal.
Concepts For Organizing Kitchen Drawers
Beginning on the left facet of our kitchen, within the “cooking zone,” we now have the utensil and cookware drawers.
Utensil Drawer
That is our primary kitchen utensils drawer that homes specialty objects like whisks, a garlic press, thermometers, pizza cutters, measuring cups and spoons, tongs, and huge serving spoons. In our earlier kitchen these took over two drawers, however on this new kitchen one massive drawer was the right dimension!
The drawer organizers on this drawer are mesh steel, which I’ve owned for years and years. Whereas it was tempting to modify to bamboo (my favourite for drawers) I made a decision to be sensible and use what I had. Fortunately, they match properly and match nicely collectively! Our different primary cooking utensils are in a pot on the countertop (spatulas, wood spoons).
Cookware Drawers
Cookware drawers have been considered one of my massive requests for our new kitchen. They appear to be highly regarded lately as a result of the cookware is really easy to succeed in. Within the center drawer we now have our on a regular basis pots and pans – a 2 quart sauce pan and 12″ frying pan by Demeyere and two nonstick Caraway minis. With the handles, they match properly inside with minimal crowding.
The decrease of the 2 deep kitchen drawers homes our less-frequently-used however extra heavy-duty items: a skillet and Blanc Creatives carbon metal frying pan and a Lodge forged iron skillet. We use these principally for searing dinner meals, so that they get the underside drawer spot. At any time when we get a stainless-steel inventory pot, it’s going to go down right here too.
Knife Drawer
Shifting over to the suitable of the vary is our knife drawer. I’m obsessive about this drawer!! We debated between re-installing our magnetic strip for knives and even going for a knife block, however I didn’t actually like both choice as a result of all of the knives have been in view. A knife drawer gave the impression to be the plain answer since we had a lot nice drawer house. I LOVE the knife organizers we bought. Whereas one can technically every match all of our knives, having two retains all of them going through out and simpler to seize. Oven mitts go within the center (love these with the silicone ideas).
Mixing Bowl Drawer
Welcome to bowl world. I LOVE our OXO stainless mixing bowls for all the pieces from making meatballs to cookies to Hugh Jass salads (the center one is my favourite salad bowl). They’re so sturdy (I’ve had them for years and years). I additionally love having nesting mixing bowls of all sizes for after I’m cooking a recipe with a whole lot of steps or doing a little meal prep. I’ll typically use all of the sizes in a single recipe – the tiniest bowl for garlic and lemon juice and the large bowls for chopped potatoes or veggies. We additionally maintain our measuring cups in right here!
Lid Drawer
This lonely lid drawer wants some mates. Our earlier cookware set had extra lids, so we had a lid drawer earlier than. We might really simply retailer the lids with the cookware, however I don’t like the additional step of eradicating it when getting out a pot, so we simply maintain them in right here. Since we now have the house, lid drawer stays for now!
Plate Drawer
Shifting on to the island!! The highest drawer is our plate drawer. When deciding the place to place our plates, I knew I wished them up prime as a result of we use them most frequently, so getting one out or unloading the dishwasher (behind me) might be carried out with out bending over to open and shut. We maintain three sizes of plates in right here: Pottery Barn traditional coupe dinner plates, traditional salad plates, and within the center a set of tiny appetizer plates that everybody wants for issues like a single cupcake or a number of apple slices!
You may surprise if the plates slide round with none drawer dividers. They do only a tiny bit. However for probably the most half they don’t (until you aggressively shut the drawer) so for now we’re going with no grid. A grid can be good, however I’m at all times on the lookout for methods to make do with what we now have!
Bowl Drawer
Below the plates in a deep drawer are our bowls! We have now some shallow pasta bowls (like these), dealt with bowls that we use for soups (like these) and deep cereal bowls (like these!). (Ours are from Pottery Barn however they’re now not offered from what I can inform.) I even have some KERF bowls which are smaller and excellent for yogurt, cereal, and many others.
I really like that this drawer can be simply accessible from the dishwasher (we undergo a whole lot of bowls) and I can shut the drawer with my thigh with a bit of nudge : )
Lunchbox Drawer
The underside massive drawer in our island is for lunchboxes. It’s trying very empty right here as a result of the youngsters had their lunchboxes with them in school after I took this picture! I put each the lunchbox inserts and the material outsides in right here on the weekends. You may see we now have a number of further lunchboxes, too.
You may know from Instagram that I additionally had all of our water bottles in right here at one level. I purchased a water bottle holder I bought on Amazon to maintain them from rolling left to proper, however they have been nonetheless shifting entrance to again rolling throughout the underside of the drawer. However slightly than purchase a drawer divider system, I made a decision to simply transfer them to the pantry. So now this drawer is lunchboxes solely!
Silverware Drawer
Flipping round to the suitable of the dishwasher is our silverware drawer. I felt strongly that this be a single, smaller drawer actually proper subsequent to the dishwasher for simple unloading. Since our dishwasher has a tray on the highest, meaning there’s zero bending over. (You may inform I really feel strongly about my hatred for bending over when planning group areas, haha.)
I bought this bamboo silverware holder final yr that matches your drawer to dimension as a result of it’s expandable. We have now it located entrance to again slightly than facet to facet. After which acrylic containers from this set fill the again with completely different classes of items (mismatching KERF spoons, cheese knives, Birch dimension spoons).
Further Cutlery Drawer
The subsequent drawer down has overflow silverware in a second smaller bamboo organizer. This golden set is one I exploit on particular events! We even have lids and chip clips in right here.
Serving + Baking Drawer
The subsequent drawer down is our serving and grill drawer. These are all items I exploit on holidays / dinner events / or fancy events and never on daily basis. Plus a number of baking objects for the KitchenAid and a rolling pin.
Wraps + Baggage Drawer
Shifting again to the island, we now have 4 extra stacked drawers which are organized by precedence top. Wraps and baggies are on the highest. I purchased this bamboo set to decant baggies and LOVE IT! They’re crammed with these compostable baggies that I discovered at Goal. We strive to not use baggies once we can use a reusable glass container, however we do use them typically. You may see we don’t actually use quart dimension proper now, in order that slot is empty, however I didn’t need to give it away!
Meals Storage Drawer
Below the luggage are our glass meals storage containers. Nonetheless love them!!!! We have now simply two sizes – small and huge. That simplifes issues so much! Most of our set was at the moment in use, however they stack neatly on prime with lids above like so:
Stasher Bag Drawer
We love Stasher bags for bagels and breads or different issues within the freezer, like our banana halves for smoothies. They get their very own drawer for when not in use.
Child Drawer
And the underside drawer is the kiddo drawer for cups, bowls, and plates for Birch. He picked this drawer as a result of he can simply attain it. We’re in all probability virtually phased out of it at this level, however he nonetheless makes use of most of this stuff at the moment.
Linens Drawer
This drawer homes our cleansing garments, kitchen towel storage, and material and paper napkins. Nothing tremendous particular! Once more I might use dividers, however there’s actually no want since issues have a tendency to remain in place.
Junk Drawer
I really like our junk drawer because of its big dimension and these nice acrylic containers that I’m at all times raving about for any drawer in your own home! We have now knick knacks that we use, a lot of chargers, a telephone cleaner, and many others. One other massive request of mine was to have an outlet contained in the drawer – such an effective way to cover muddle.
Beverage Drawer
The ultimate cease on the drawer tour is our bev drawer beneath the espresso station. This drawer seems to be a bit messy because of the number of classes inside, but it surely’s actually all “drinks.” From koozies to spoons for stirring honey and low, to tea and wine openers. The whole lot we want for the espresso bar or drink fridge is correct right here. (Plus Thomas’s nutritional vitamins as a result of he takes them within the a.m.!)
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How To Set up Kitchen Drawers
In case your kitchen is feeling cluttered inside all your drawers, try this submit for my three-step course of: How To Set up Something In Your Home. I haven’t at all times had such a spacious kitchen, so there are some ideas from my smaller areas within the House Neat House archives.
Listed below are some ideas for organizing the kitchen drawers particularly:
Step 1: Purchase some organizing containers
This can be a new-to-me methodology that I used to be offered on when Thomas’s aunt Layton got here to assist me set up our new walk-in pantry. Layton arrived with a automobile stuffed with containers (with the tags nonetheless on) that we have been in a position to combine and match like a puzzle till we discovered the right accent for every merchandise. Once we have been carried out, we returned those we didn’t use. I discover this methodology so useful whenever you’re making an attempt to place collectively drawer organizers like a grid and aren’t fairly certain what you want. The additional step to return what you don’t use is unquestionably a bit of further time, but it surely makes organizing a lot extra enjoyable!
For extra kitchen organizing equipment, try these posts: Kitchen Group Equipment Favorites and Pantry Group Bins.
Step 2: Take all the pieces out of the drawers
While you’re prepared to start out organizing, take all the pieces out. If doing it all of sudden isn’t doable, simply do one drawer or class at a time. When you see what’s on the market (particularly these of you with deep, darkish holes for drawers) you’ll extra simply be capable of see what is important to remain and what can do. You probably have three rolling pins, possibly you don’t want three?! (We do have three pizza cutters and we do use all three at instances when one is biking by way of the dishwasher!) Keep in mind to be ruthless about what you retain, particularly if you’re quick on house.
Step 3: Think about the place and the way you employ issues
On the countertop, visualize the place issues will go. Group like issues with like and take into consideration not solely what you employ collectively (plates collectively, silverware collectively) but additionally the place in your kitchen you employ it. It was extraordinarily vital to me that our on a regular basis dishes and flatware be as near the dishwasher as humanly doable. We put cooking issues subsequent to the range and meals storage issues the place we often are wrapping up leftovers. Much less used objects go within the backside drawers.
Step 4: Place issues again in drawers utilizing containers and dividers
When you’ve made a plan, begin to put issues again. That is the enjoyable half! Take into consideration like with like but additionally the scale and form of issues which may match nicely in a drawer (like how our mixing bowls and measuring cups match properly collectively). When you weren’t in a position to purchase new equipment, store your private home for instruments to retailer issues. I’ve lengthy cherished storing issues in empty mason jars, baskets, or classic containers that I already owned.
